Migrant children sent to emergency shelters within the United States reported crowded living conditions, spoiled food, lack of clean clothes and struggles with depression, according to 17 testimonials filed in a court case on Monday.

Migrant children report overcrowding, spoiled food, depression in US shelters

As the US faced a migrant crisis, several pictures and reports came to the surface that showed unaccompanied migrant children being forced to spend nights in parked busses at the Dallas convention center.

Reports of migrant children packed in buses 'unacceptable, says US agency

The United Nations Children’s Fund said on Monday that with an average of 275 minors entering the country every day the number of migrant children arriving in Mexico and hoping to enter the United States has increased ninefold from January to March this year.

Number of migrant children at Mexico-US border increases nine-fold this year

Migrant children and families are sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on mats in a Texas border facility designed for 250 people that is now holding more than 4,100, according to some of the first photographs to emerge from the crowded camp that has become a focal point of the Biden administration’s struggles to absorb thousands of new arrivals on the southwestern border.

‘No place for a child’: Inside the tent camp housing thousands of migrant children